WHILE travelling to Abbottabad over the weekend I needed to fill my car’s CNG cylinder. I turned my car to a CNG station in Haripur.

Before asking an attendant to fill the CNG cylinder, I noticed the CNG rate which was Rs83.97 per kilo. On being asked about the rate, the attendant said the rate had been revised by the CNG association.

I noticed the aforesaid rate almost at every CNG station. Who authorised these CNG stations to set tariff at Rs83.97 per kilo instead of Rs74.35, without any notification from the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority.

If the CNG association has authority to revise the tariff, then there was no need to form Ogra. It is lawlessness that decisions are taken by unions and associations.

Strict action should be taken against these CNG stations to save consumers from ‘inflation’. The government’s silence over the issue is a big question mark.

Syed Mustafa Shah

Manshera

Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2014